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Bitcoin just went vertical. After spending the entire session glued to the $77,200 to $78,000 zone, $BTC ripped through $80,000 and printed an intraday high of $80,477, trading at $80,301 at
Standard Chartered has switched on institutional Bitcoin and Ether spot trading in the UAE, becoming the first Global Systemically Important Bank to offer the service in the country and, by i
Anyone holding Doginals or DRC-20 tokens in the Dogecoin wallet MyDoge has to move them to another wallet by September 17, 2026. After that, MyDoge can neither display nor send those holdings
Since September 1, 2026 the peer-to-peer marketplace Peach Bitcoin no longer co-signs the release of trades itself. The provider has suspended its escrow co-signature and is operating without
The Pi mainnet is running on protocol 26 on September 2, 2026. The first testnet has been on protocol 27 since August 20; the second testnet is still on 26 today. Specialist media name Septem
$Ethereum is holding the $2,500 handle, but it is not moving with anything like the conviction $Bitcoin showed yesterday. ETH trades at $2,517.8, up marginally against a previous close of $2,
Receiving Bitcoin as salary: how Austria taxes income and later price gains Where an Austrian employee is paid wholly or partly in Bitcoin, taxation is not simply deferred until the coins are
Poland’s lawmakers have once again fallen short of the supermajority needed to overturn President Karol Nawrocki’s veto of a bill intended to tighten oversight of the country’s crypto market.
Bitcoin as Loan Collateral: When No Tax Arises in Austria Owning Bitcoin, needing liquidity, and yet not wanting to sell the coins: crypto loans promise exactly that model. The investor pledg
Bitcoin Lost in a Wallet Hack: Can the Loss Be Claimed for Tax in Austria? A wallet hack can amount to a complete economic loss for investors who hold Bitcoin. For tax purposes, however, losi
Two numbers are telling opposite stories about XRP right now. US spot XRP ETFs took in $110.49 million in the week ending August 28, their strongest week of 2026, pushing cumulative inflows t
If you hold CORE, one question currently comes before the price: the question of where it sits. If your holding is on an exchange, it may have been stuck since 31 August, depending on the pro
